Sussman was technically nonetheless beneath a contract with ABC attributable to his rotating visitor function on the short-lived sequence Ugly Betty. The actor has since defined that ABC producers had already written him out of the present and given him their verbal blessing that he was free to discover new alternatives on the time, so he felt that there can be no authorized debacle about becoming a member of the forged of The Huge Bang Idea.
As a substitute, execs at ABC determined to be petty, and seemingly deliberately mishandled Sussman’s contract for no motive aside from to dam his success and jam up the casting technique of the burgeoning CBS hit. Relying on who you ask particularly, this contract difficulty could be seen as a easy oversight or a “jerk transfer.”
